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Saturday, September 03, 2011

Pot Heads Are Where It's At

Is there a doper anywhere that did not start with pot? I wonder how the productivity works out for a worker that shows up to work after having done bazooka size bong hits? We heard the "high minded" (I could not resist that low hanging fruit) civil libertarian blah-blah-blah,blah-blah.

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"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."- Albert Einstein quote on Hemp

"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."- William F. Buckley Jr. quote on Marijuana

"When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn’t that exactly what’s been happening with drugs?"- Milton Friedman quote on Marijuana

"It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics . . . dope and all that crap. It's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an assistant - a friend."- Louis Armstrong quote on Marijuana

"That is not a drug. It’s a leaf," - Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. President Wannabe quote on Marijuana

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President quote on Hemp

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."- George Washington, U.S. President quote on Hemp

"When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again."- Bill Clinton, U.S. President quote on Marijuana

"When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point."- Barack Obama quote on Marijuana

"There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me."- John Wayne quote on Marijuana

"I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it."- Andy Warhol quote on Marijuana

"I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it".- Jennifer Aniston quote on Marijuana

Marijuana is not as benign as people believe. Its use should not be encouraged. However, I doubt that its use should be criminal.

I am a researcher at a university and have studied the effects of drugs, particularly alcohol, on the brain for the last decade or so. Like many of my friends and colleagues, I consider marijuana to be a relatively low-risk drug when used in moderation by responsible adults. However, I am now forced to admit that my view of the discontinuation syndrome was naïve and that I was completely unprepared for it myself:

Week 4: This is where the real problems began for me. Sudden onset of intense, full body anxiety…. This led to complete insomnia for days. A very deep feeling of dread and a sense that I was going completely insane. Crying spells that came from nowhere….

Week 5: The intense anxiety slowly began to dissipate… was able to sleep for 4-6 hours a night, which is approaching normal for me. Appetite slowly came back but the thought of eating was unpleasant. Feeling of confidence began to return. Feelings of hopelessness and of going crazy began to diminish.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, this secretive group of men (and a few women) has grown tenfold while sustaining a level of obscurity that not even the CIA managed. “We’re the dark matter. We’re the force that orders the universe but can’t be seen,” a strapping Navy SEAL, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said in describing his unit.

Drugs are the false attempt to get to what only myth talks about, transcendence, top o' Everest.

Anybody wanna smoke some myth?

risky moved up today from what amounted to accomodations in a garage with a cot, to a well furnished condo more fitting to a gelding of his quality. The search for the right saddle continues, and it's gonna cost more than the damn horse. The bearded bastard from Reno that fired Ky the manageress whom everybody liked is now left with a total of two horses. Ky told all the boarders they ought to leave, to get out, that the new owner don't know shit, and they all did. Ky's revenge. heh

The Obama administration has initiated a last-ditch diplomatic campaign to avert a confrontation this month over a plan by Palestinians to seek recognition as a state at the United Nations, but it may already be too late, according to senior American officials and foreign diplomats.

The administration has circulated a proposal for renewed peace talks with the Israelis in the hopes of persuading the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to abandon the bid for recognition at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly beginning Sept. 20...

Senior officials said the administration wanted to avoid not only a veto but also the more symbolic and potent General Assembly vote that would leave the United States and only a handful of other nations in the opposition. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss diplomatic maneuverings, said they feared that in either case a wave of anger could sweep the Palestinian territories and the wider Arab world at a time when the region is already in tumult. President Obama would be put in the position of threatening to veto recognition of the aspirations of most Palestinians or risk alienating Israel and its political supporters in the United States...

There was another article in the local paper today confirming, though down playing, what we all here knew anyway, and that is the wolves have indeed crossed the Snake and are into the Wallowas and Blues. In fact, they were there three or four years ago. That 57 head of elk, like the number of our states, my wife and I saw a couple years ago, I imagine by now it is nowhere to be seen. Again, as always, Fish and Games underestimates the numbers dramatically.

If Rufus can talk about ethanol endlessly, I feel entitled to do the same about the disaster occurring here.

Quirk, I hope you listened to Sarah's speech today, as I just have done. Not a great speech, filled with cliches, but she did touch on some themes dear to your heart. How both parties are filled with bastards - who become, as is well said, not that she said it, much more numerous the further you get from Missoula, Montana, and how they are going to be hard to get rid of.

She also, if I heard aright, advocated cutting the taxation of corporations to zero, a position I'm sure you wouldn't like. Remember though the dividends are taxed. She thought it would jump start the economy. To my despair she didn't mention the capital gains tax.

Was reading today, in a deep book, bout a mythy understand of the usual image in our modern age of the Cross.

The horizontal cross beam, of course, is symbolic of the secular world, our sufferings and redemption.

But notice, how in the usual depiction of it, at least today, it is a little higher up than midway, thus signifying the importance of the secular life, and the necessity and urgency of trying to do something about the forever and endless sufferings of the world, which will of course never cease.

But the vertical beam is longer, compared to the horizontal, the beam that is reaching towards transcendence, always available, dissecting the horizontal beam, putting all things in perspective.

One way of looking at that myth.

Drugs ain't gonna get you there.

But such an understanding might help.

The Cross we bear today, and always and ever, is the Cross of everyday life. Remember the vertical beam, as you bear.

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.